It’s funny – I seem to toggle between which service that I’d rather use every couple of years, Google v. Microsoft. In the last 10 or so years, office has stayed relatively the sale, else some fundamental UI changes, however Google seems to always have something new. They buy out software companies and then after killing what they’ve designed, slowly integrate it into something they have in order to make it better, or in many cases usable in the first place.
After being a Microsoft Office 365 subscriber for ever, I think I’m going to cancel it in favor of Google One – another service that I’ve actually been a subscriber of since early 2019, back when it was $1.99/100gb. Why am I canceling one in favor of the other? Expense. Plain and simple. The subscription model is getting expensive – $5 here, $3 there, and $10 for this or that really starts to add up, doesn’t it? On top of this, I pay for additional iCloud Storage, which I may cancel as well and start doing local phone backups to my desktop once a week. With photos automatically backing up to Google Photos for a cloud backup, this is just additional redundancy is it not?
This is a conundrum that we’ll soon be, if we’re not already, facing with TV streaming as well. The password sharing model has worked great for many people forever, a few people pay for these services, while you pay for those services, we share our passwords, and now we have everything we need. With the recent implementation of Netflix’s Password Sharing crackdown, it’s only logical that others will soon follow suit in an attempt to generate additional revenue. When it comes down to it, people are going to have to start picking and choosing their services, and when that happens, will streamers be bringing in enough revenue to continue to generate such high budget original content? Or will they have to go back to their roots of strictly licensing deals?
Are there any streaming, or just general subscription services like I’ve mentioned above, that you’ve cut due to lack of use or redundancy?
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